HUGE NEWS

THE CULT OF SINCERITY premiers on YouTube on April 8th!  The first full-length feature film ever to be released on YouTube, The Cult of Sincerity is breaking all the rules of independent film-making.  Read more about it here and be sure to check out the website!!

 

He’s Back!

My friend Kyle comes into town again this afternoon to spend Easter weekend with me.  I anticipate much hilarity and fun as I try once again to convince him to make NY his home base.  Wish me luck!

 

Hiatus

Ok, it’s not really true; I don’t even know how to fish.  I had a boyfriend once who wanted to take me . . . and I’ve always loved the song “Fishin’ in the Dark” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band . . . but I digress.  I’ve been so busy with the holidays and then with a CRAZY start to 2008 at work, that I haven’t had a lot of down time.  Plus, my home computer is totally dead.  Thus, this blog is neglected.  Hopefully at some point I’ll be able to resurrect it, as I do actually enjoy blogging (who’d've thunk?).  ‘Til then, don’t knock me out of your feed reader!  I’ll be back!

 

My Discworld Character

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Gytha (Nanny) Ogg You are Nanny Ogg! A talented witch, able to make yourself at home wherever you are, and insist that Greebo is just a big softie. You enjoy drinking, a lot, and singing about a hedgehog. You have a huge family, and get your daughters-in-law to do most of the housework. You are kind and gentle, and help put people at ease. Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 81% Carrot Ironfounderson 69% Commander Samuel Vimes 50% Lord Havelock Vetinari 50% Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax 44% The Librarian 38% Greebo 31% Cohen The Barbarian 25% Death 19% Rincewind 19%

 

Sheet Music Storage

I’ve come across a few people lately wondering about different ways to store sheet music.  Here’s how I do it:

In lieu of a piano stand, my lovely silver Yamaha P70 rests atop four sturdy silver “milk” crates, putting it at a comfortable playing height when seated on the stool pictured.  In each of those crates, three magazine boxes fit perfectly.  You can order the snap ‘n’ fold magazine boxes from drugstore.com, or buy them at Staples.  (The black ones I ordered from drugstore.com; the silver striped ones I found at Staples.)  I believe they also come in red.  Apparently, Amazon has them, too.

 

Update on NaNoWriMo

For those who were wondering:  I signed up.  I’m doing NaNoWriMo.  I’m also WAAAAYYYY behind and plotless.  Considering I’ll be out of the country for a good week of this month, outlook is not promising.  But hey, the website says “Nothing ventured, nothing gained,” right?

 

In the 11th Month

For those of you who don’t know, November is officially National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo.  I first heard about it over on Glenna’s personal blog, when she was in a crunch trying to get it all done.  I heard nothing more about it and didn’t give it another thought until I became friends with Josh, at which point NaNoWriMo participants started coming out of the woodwork.  At this point, Annie, Ben, Bethany, Casey, Alissa, and quite a few others have all harassed encouraged me to participate.  Aside from the fact that it would mean shelling out a few hundred dollars to have my laptop fixed, my main hesitancy is this:

What in #&%% will I write ABOUT?

 

Why My Mother Calls Me a Music Snob

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage
US composer of avant-garde music (1912 - 1992)

 

Running Out of Random

I’ve been tagged again, by my blog-buddy at UnlikelyMe, for seven more random things about myself.  Yikes, if we keep going on like this, I’m going to run out of things to tell the internet.  Sheeblies.

 1.  I wear Mardi-Gras beads.  Often.  At the moment I’m wearing four different strands, all pearl-coloured.  My uncle has been going to Mardi-Gras in N’awlins for years, and has amassed thousands of beads that I inherited when he and my grandmother and I cleaned out his apartment.  When I first moved into my apartment and was totally broke, I decorated with them.

2.  I once wore a grass skirt to school.  (Junior high.  I was considered a weird kid.)

3.  Back when people still put paper bookcovers on their textbooks, I once covered an entire textbook cover in lipstick kisses and sealed them with packaging tape.

4.  I have three golden pothos ivy plants named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  They live with me in a dark basement.  I thought they were good names for plants growing in adverse conditions.  Sometimes I talk to them, because I proved that this can help plants grow with an experiment in 7th grade involving a golden pothos ivy plant named Wilbur, who would still be with me today if my dad hadn’t accidentally composted him when we moved.

5.  I wrote a lot of dark poetry when I was in my early teens.  (Isn’t that a common angst outlet for kids coming into themselves?)

6.  I like peanut butter sandwiches with pickle.  I am not now and have never been pregnant.

7.  According to Bethany, I was apparently a cool kid in high school.  Funny how I didn’t know that.  :)  I’m not so sure; what do you think, internets?  Was I cool?  (I’m second from the left.)

 

Recent Decor

Here’s a pictoral walk through the basement, as it’s currently decorated.